List of moths of Great Britain (Geometridae)

The family Geometridae is represented by over 300 species in Great Britain.

Subfamily Archiearinae

Subfamily Alsophilinae

March moth

Subfamily Geometrinae

  • Aplasta ononaria, rest harrow — south-east (Red Data Book) ‡
  • Pseudoterpna coronillaria, Jersey emerald — Jersey
  • Pseudoterpna pruinata atropunctaria, grass emerald — throughout
  • Geometra papilionaria, large emerald — throughout
  • Comibaena bajularia, blotched emerald — south & centre (localized)
  • Antonechloris smaragdaria maritima, Essex emerald — south-east, presumed extinct
  • Hemithea aestivaria, common emerald — south & central
  • Chlorissa viridata, small grass emerald — south & west-central (Nationally Scarce A)
  • [Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria, blackberry looper — probable import]
  • Thalera fimbrialis, Sussex emerald — south-east (Red Data Book) ‡
  • Hemistola chrysoprasaria, small emerald — south & central (localized) (Vulnerable[1]) ‡*
  • Jodis lactearia, little emerald — south, central & north-west (localized)

Subfamily Sterrhinae

Maiden's blush
Small blood-vein
  • Scopula floslactata floslactata — south & central (localized)
  • Scopula floslactata f. scotica — north-west (localized)
Small fan-foot wave
Small dusty wave

Subfamily Larentiinae

Oblique carpet
  • Xanthorhoe decoloraria hethlandicaShetland
  • Xanthorhoe decoloraria decoloraria — north & west
  • Xanthorhoe montanata shetlandicaShetland
  • Xanthorhoe montanata montanata — throughout
Garden carpet
  • Scotopteryx mucronata scotica — west-central & north (localized)
  • Scotopteryx mucronata umbrifera — south-west (localized)
Yellow shell
  • Epirrhoe alternata, common carpet
  • Epirrhoe alternata obscurataOuter Hebrides
  • Epirrhoe alternata alternata — throughout
  • Camptogramma bilineata bilineata — throughout
  • Camptogramma bilineata atlanticaShetland & Outer Hebrides
Mallow
  • Entephria flavicinctata flavicinctata — west coast of Scotland & Inner Hebrides, Yorkshire Dales & Black Mountains (Nationally Scarce B)
  • Entephria flavicinctata ruficinctata — central & north-west Scotland (localized)
Phoenix
Common marbled carpet
  • Chloroclysta miata, autumn green carpet — throughout (localized)
  • Chloroclysta citrata, dark marbled carpet
  • Chloroclysta citrata citrata — throughout
  • Chloroclysta citrata pythonissataShetland & Orkney
  • Chloroclysta concinnata, Arran carpet — north-west (Nationally Scarce A)
  • Chloroclysta truncata, common marbled carpet — throughout
  • Cidaria fulvata, barred yellow — throughout
  • Plemyria rubiginata, blue-bordered carpet
  • Plemyria rubiginata rubiginata — south & central
  • Plemyria rubiginata plumbata — north (localized)
  • Thera firmata, pine carpet — throughout
  • Thera obeliscata, grey pine carpet — throughout
  • Thera britannica, spruce carpet — throughout
  • Thera cognata, chestnut-coloured carpet — central & north (Nationally Scarce B)
Juniper carpet
  • Thera juniperata, juniper carpet
  • Thera juniperata juniperata — throughout
  • Thera juniperata scotica —north (localized)
  • Thera juniperata orcadensisOrkney (possibly extinct)
  • Rheumaptera hastata hastata — south & central (Nationally Scarce B)
  • Rheumaptera hastata f. nigrescens — north (Nationally Scarce B)
Winter moth
  • Operophtera brumata, winter moth — throughout
  • Operophtera fagata, northern winter moth — throughout
  • Perizoma taeniata, barred carpet — central & north (Nationally Scarce A)
  • Perizoma affinitata, rivulet — throughout
Small rivulet
  • Perizoma blandiata blandiata — north & west (local)
  • Perizoma blandiata perfasciataHebrides & Rùm
  • Perizoma albulata albulata — throughout (localized)
  • Perizoma albulata subfasciariaShetland
  • Perizoma flavofasciata, sandy carpet — throughout
  • Perizoma didymata, twin-spot carpet
  • Perizoma didymata didymata — throughout
  • Perizoma didymata hethlandicaShetland
  • Perizoma sagittata, marsh carpet — east-central (Nationally Scarce A)
  • Eupithecia tenuiata, slender pug — throughout
  • Eupithecia inturbata, maple pug — south & central (localized)
  • Eupithecia haworthiata, Haworth's pug — south & central (localized)
  • Eupithecia plumbeolata, lead-coloured pug — south, central & north-west (Nationally Scarce B)
  • Eupithecia abietaria, cloaked pug — throughout
  • Eupithecia linariata, toadflax pug — throughout
  • Eupithecia pulchellata, foxglove pug
  • Eupithecia pulchellata pulchellata — throughout
  • Eupithecia pulchellata hebudiumWales & Hebrides
  • Eupithecia exiguata exiguata — throughout
  • Eupithecia exiguata muricolorAberdeenshire
  • Eupithecia venosata venosata — south, central & north-east (localized)
  • Eupithecia venosata hebridensisHebrides
  • Eupithecia venosata fumosaeShetland & Orkney
  • Eupithecia venosata ochracaeOrkney
  • Eupithecia egenaria, Fletcher's (pauper) pug — south-west & east (Red Data Book)
  • Eupithecia centaureata, lime-speck pug — throughout
  • Eupithecia trisignaria, triple-spotted pug — throughout (localized)
  • Eupithecia intricata
  • Eupithecia intricata millieraria, Edinburgh pug — north
  • Eupithecia intricata arceuthata, Freyer's pug — south & central
  • Eupithecia satyrata callunaria — south (localized)
  • Eupithecia satyrata satyrata — north (moorlands)
  • Eupithecia satyrata curzoniShetland
  • Eupithecia absinthiata f. goossensiata, ling pug — throughout (localized, especially heathland and moorland)
  • Eupithecia assimilata, currant pug — throughout
  • Eupithecia expallidata, bleached pug — south-east, west & north (Nationally Scarce B)
  • Eupithecia vulgata, common pug
  • Eupithecia vulgata vulgata — south & central
  • Eupithecia vulgata scotica — north
  • Eupithecia denotata denotata, campanula pug — south & east (Nationally Scarce A)
  • Eupithecia denotata jasioneata, jasione pug — south-west & west-central (Nationally Scarce A)
Golden-rod pug
  • Eupithecia virgaureata, golden-rod pug — west & east (localized)
  • Eupithecia abbreviata, brindled pug — throughout
Oak-tree pug
  • Eupithecia pusillata pusillata — throughout
  • Eupithecia pusillata anglicata — extinct
Dwarf pug
  • Chloroclystis v-ata, v-pug — throughout
V-pug
  • Pasiphila chloerata, sloe pug — south & central
  • Pasiphila rectangulata, green pug — throughout
  • Pasiphila debiliata, bilberry pug — south & west (Nationally Scarce B)
  • Gymnoscelis rufifasciata, double-striped pug — throughout
  • Anticollix sparsata, dentated pug — south & central (Nationally Scarce A)
  • Chesias legatella, streak — throughout (Vulnerable[1]) ‡*
  • Chesias rufata, broom-tip (Vulnerble[1]) ‡*
  • Chesias rufata rufata — south-east & west (Nationally Scarce B)
  • Chesias rufata scotica — north (Nationally Scarce B)
  • Aplocera plagiata plagiata — throughout
  • Aplocera plagiata scotica — north
Magpie moth
Sharp-angled peacock
Scorched wing
Early thorn
  • Selenia dentaria, early thorn — throughout
  • Selenia lunularia, lunar thorn — throughout (localized)
  • Selenia tetralunaria, purple thorn — south, central & north
  • Odontopera bidentata, scalloped hazel — throughout
  • Crocallis elinguaria, scalloped oak — throughout
  • Ourapteryx sambucaria, swallow-tailed moth — throughout
  • Colotois pennaria, feathered thorn — throughout
  • Angerona prunaria, orange moth — south (localized)
  • Apocheima hispidaria, small brindled beauty — south & central (localized)
  • Apocheima pilosaria, pale brindled beauty — throughout
  • Lycia hirtaria, brindled beauty — south, central & north (Vulnerable[1]) ‡*
  • Lycia zonaria, belted beauty
  • Lycia zonaria britannica — west-central (Red Data Book)
  • Lycia zonaria atlantica — north-west (Nationally Scarce A)
Peppered moth
  • Cleora cinctaria bowesi — north-west & west-central (Nationally Scarce A)
  • Cleora cinctaria cinctaria — south (Nationally Scarce A)
  • Alcis repandata repandata — throughout
  • Alcis repandata sodorensiumHebrides
Common heath (female)
  • Ematurga atomaria, common heath — throughout
  • Tephronia sepiaria, dusky carpet — probable immigrant
  • Bupalus piniaria, bordered white — throughout
  • Cabera pusaria, common white wave — throughout
  • Cabera exanthemata, common wave — throughout
  • Lomographa bimaculata, white-pinion spotted — south & west-central
  • Lomographa temerata, clouded silver — south, central & north
  • Aleucis distinctata, sloe carpet — south-east & south (Nationally Scarce B) ‡
  • Theria primaria, early moth — south, central & north
Light emerald

Species listed in the 2007 UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)[2] are indicated by a double-dagger symbol (‡)—species so listed for research purposes only are also indicated with an asterisk (‡*).

See also

References

  1. Fox, R., K.F. Conrad, M.S. Parsons, M.S. Warren and I.P. Woiwood, 2006. The State of Britain's Larger Moths. Butterfly Conservation and Rothamsted Research, Wareham, UK.
  2. Butterfly Conservation, 2007. The UK Biodiversity Action Plan – Moths. Butterfly Conservation, Wareham, UK. 4p.
  • Waring, Paul, Martin Townsend and Richard Lewington (2003) Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland. British Wildlife Publishing, Hook, UK. ISBN 0-9531399-1-3.
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